Clamp.



E. & A. LINTON. CLAMP. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1914.

' 1,132,364. Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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ELIZABETH LIN TON AND ANNE LINTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar, 16, 1915,

Application filed June 27, 1914. Serial No. 847,656.

To all whom it may c0ncern:

Be it known that we, ELIZABETH LINTON and ANNE LINTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a simple clamp which will have a neat and ornamental appearance and which is adapted for use in securing papers and the like.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of a clamp which consists of few parts that can be readily assembled and which is preferably adapted to be of a unique and ornamental appearance.

The device is particularly adapted for use in securing papers and the like together, although it can be used for various other purposes.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clamp; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view, parts being broken away to disclose the underlying structure.

Referring more particularly to the views, we provide a single piece of spring-like wire 10 having a lateral end 11, said piece of wire being bent in the form of a loop to provide a clamping arm 12 and then bent to form an oppositely extending loop providing a handle 13. The said wire at the inner end of the handle 13 is then coiled to form a spring 14: lying between and immediately above the clamping arm 12 and handle 13, after which the wire is bent to form another loop providing a second handle 15, the said piece of wire being then bent in the opposite direction and looped to form a second clamping arm 16, with the clamping arm 16 in superposed relation to the clamping arm 12 and the handle 15 is in superposed relation to the handle 13, with the spring 14 lying between a portion of wire forming the clamping arm 12 and handle 13 and a portion of wire forming the clamping arm 15 and handle 16, whereby the said spring will constitute a fulcrum in moving the clamping arms12 and 15 into or out ofrelative gripping position; The inner end of the wire after the formation of the clamping arm 16 is bent to form a lateral end 17, said lateral end extending into the coiled or tubular portion of the spring 14, whereas the lateral end 11 also passes through the tubular portion of the spring in the opposite direction to the lateral end 17.

The free end of the handle 15 is bent backwardly and upon itself to form a gripping member 18, and, similarly, the free end of the handle 16 is bent backwardly upon itself to form a gripping member 19, said gripping members 18 and 19 extending toward each other to secure a plate 20 in the nature of an identification card and which plate can be made of cardboard or any other material, and suitably ornamented with afanciful design or the like In order to hold the plate in engagement with the gripping members 18 and 19 the plate is cut to provide a plurality of opposed eX- tensions or tongues 21, and, as will be seen, the gripping members 18 and 19 are in the nature ofloops, with the tongues 21 passing between the sides of the loops, thus securing the plate against displacement relatively to the gripping members.

The plate is preferably made larger than the lower handle and lower gripping member so that in plan the plate and gripping members only will be visible, thus providing a clamp which will have a neat and effective appearance and in which one of the gripping members and one of the handles not only act as means for gripping paper and means for securing the clamp in gripping position, but these members also provide a means in the nature of the gripping members 18 and 19 whereby the identifica tion card is held upon the clamp.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the clamp described is of a simple construction, consists essentially of two parts, namely, a single piece of wire bent as mentioned and a plate or identification card held thereon; that the device can be cheaply manufactured and will present ,a neat and eifective appearance, while at the same time it will efiiectively accomplish the purpose for which it is intended.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a clamp comprising a single pieee of Wire bent to provide a plurality of gripping arms and a plurality of handles opposed to the gripping arms, With a spring formed by the Wire and lying between the handles and the gripping arms, a plate constituting an identification or ornamental card, and loops formed by one of the gripping arms and one of the handles and engaging the plate or card for holding the same in superposed Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the relation to the said gripping arms and ELIZABETH LINTON. ANNE LINTON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES N. BUOKLEY, ANNIE KINSLEY CAMPBELL.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

